YOUNGSTERS in a village surrounded by fields have missed out on a £44,000 play area – because there was nowhere for it. Children in Frating have been waiting for years for play facilities and the village finally won lottery cash for a games area. But
Tory backbencher Douglas Carswell has welcomed the Government’s plan to take up his idea of locally-elected police chiefs. The Clacton MP put forward the idea for American-style justice commissioners in his book, The Plan. Mr Carswell
POLICE have released the identity of the worker killed when a crane collapsed at Harwich Port. Per Terp, a 42-year-old engineer from Norresundby, Denmark, was crushed by part of a wind turbine on Friday at about 7.50am. Another worker, 43
A NEW date has been been fixed for Colchester United’s Essex Senior cup final. The U’s will take on AFC Hornchurch at Bridge Avenue on Tuesday, August 3, with a 7.45pm kick-off. The game was due to be played in March at Dagenham & Redbridge FC between
ZOO bosses are reassuring worried animal lovers, after a video of its male rhinoceros apparently attacking another rhino was posted on the internet. A video of Otto seemingly bullying and assaulting Flossy in the enclosure at Colchester Zoo, has left
THE amount of compensation Colchester United will receive for Aidy Boothroyd's departure will remain undisclosed. U's chairman Robbie Cowling revealed that negotiations with his Coventry City counterpart Ray Ranson went smoothly. Cowling said: "It was
ROBBIE Cowling is aiming to have a new manager in place at the Community Stadium within three weeks. However, the Colchester United chairman is not going to act in haste and will only appoint a new man if he believes that he can take the
AIDY Boothroyd says he hopes Colchester United fans understand his decision to quit the club. And he has backed chairman Robbie Cowling to bring in the right man in his place to take the U’s forward. Former Reading boss Brendan Rodgers and ex-Blackburn
COLCHESTER’S hospitals have been criticised by patients in an official report. A survey of inpatients at Colchester General Hospital and Essex County Hospital placed them in the bottom 20 per cent of 162 NHS trusts in England, in 46 out of 64 categories
A HOSPITAL trust’s payroll system is to be reviewed after managers overpaid an empoyee. Colchester Hospital University NHS Foundation Trust has apologised for mistakes which led to Kirsten Walsh being overpaid about £1,700. The mother-of-two, of Magnolia
